"Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy."

“A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.”

“We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.”

Source : George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Fell (1839). “A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian Experiences, and Labour of Love in the Work of the Ministry of that Ancient, Eminent, and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, George Fox”, p.41

“Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated”

“...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.”

“I don't think of my music as being about something.”

“Security has no place in the life of an actress.”

“The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself.  Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.”

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”

Source : John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co